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• Saturday, November 22, 2008 08:42 PM

  Fine, You're a Liberal.

  I've always thought we needed liberals to bail others out of jail.

  Seriously, the key problem with liberals is that they have no problem with deferring to Presidential power as long as their party has the White House. The phrase, "concentration of power" only bothers them when power is concentrated in a Republican's hands. Again & again, liberals fail to see that the same hardware which they use to run their programs, can easily be hacked by whichever unholy trinity for which the right agrees to pay.

  As someone who has long maintained that our government's default position is pro-war; that it prefers corporate property to private property - or any other relation to property; that far too many voices go unheard, I've always felt both exasperation and admiration for our liberal siblings.

  However, if I'm forced to claim a label, I prefer radical centrist. There is nothing particularly liberal or conservative about insisting that our Constitution gives more power to the Legislative than the Executive Branch or to work towards the day that we finally outgrow the Empire that T. Roosevelt saddled us with & return to our federal, republican roots.

  Regardless of which political banner flies over your picnic, the starting point is to be skeptical of the system itself while keeping faith with those who try to make it work.

  —green_turtle Read green_turtle's other letters
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